{"id":37520,"date":"2014-09-29T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37520"},"modified":"2014-09-29T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:18:27","slug":"making-the-mexican-diabetic-race-science-and-the-genetics-of-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37520","title":{"rendered":"Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520267312\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Press<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 2011<br \/>\n282 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780520267305<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780520267312<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropology.uci.edu\/anthr_bios\/mmontoya\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael J. Montoya<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano\/Latino Studies &amp; Public Health<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/img\/covers\/isbn13\/9780520267312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diabetes_mellitus_type_2\" target=\"_blank\">type 2 diabetes<\/a>, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from \u201cMexican-American\u201d donors to laboratories that are searching out genetic contributions to diabetes. His analysis lays bare the politics and ethics of the research process, <strong>addressing the implicit contradiction of undertaking genetic research that reinscribes race\u2019s importance even as it is being demonstrated to have little scientific validity.<\/strong> In placing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=DNA_sequencing\" target=\"_blank\">DNA sampling<\/a>, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, <em>Making the Mexican Diabetic<\/em> underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.<\/p>\n<p>Read chapter 1, &#8220;Biological or Social Allelic Variation and the Making of Race in Single Nucleotide Polymorphism\u2013 Based Research&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/content\/chapters\/11740.ch01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality University of California Press March 2011 282 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520267305 Paperback ISBN: 9780520267312 Michael J. Montoya, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano\/Latino Studies &amp; Public Health University of California, Irvine This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,2039,14646,8,17,20],"tags":[17979,17980,1284],"class_list":["post-37520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-health-medicine","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-michael-j-montoya","tag-montoya-montoya","tag-university-of-california-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}